Exsanguination preventing device

a technology of exsanguination and device, which is applied in the direction of therapeutic cooling, gravity drainage system, other medical devices, etc., can solve the problems of insufficient arrest of blood loss of injured soldiers, inability to prevent blood loss, and death of soldiers,
US20140234166A1Active Publication Date: 2014-08-21ERICKSON DIRK JEROME
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
ERICKSON DIRK JEROME
Publication Date
2014-08-21

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Abstract

In one embodiment, an exsanguination preventing device includes a collection container having an inlet configured to receive blood from a patient and an outlet configured to discharge the blood; a pump operatively coupled to the collection container; a conduit fluidly coupled to the collection container, which receives the blood from the collection container, the blood being moved by the pump; and an insertion device, which delivers the blood from the conduit to a bodily part of the patient. The collection container is configured to be sealingly coupled to a wound on the patient and air entrapped within the exsanguination preventing device is removed by an air removal system, such to prevent unwanted discharge of air into the bodily part of the patient. All the components of the exsanguination preventing device are sized such to make it portable in a pocket of a garment or backpack of a soldier.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention relates to a device that prevents exsanguination. More particularly, the present invention relates to a device that prevents exsanguination of a patient by recirculating autologous blood into the body of the patient.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] Exsanguination (colloquially known as bleeding out) is the fatal process of blood loss to an amount that causes death.

[0003] A typical cause of exsanguinations is traumatic injury where blood loss cannot be arrested. For example, exsanguination is the leading cause of death on a battlefield. Non-battlefield causes can include murder by shooting or stabbing; motor vehicle accidents; suicide by cutting arteries; and partial or complete amputation of limbs due to workplace accidents.

[0004] A victim does not have to lose all of his (her) blood to cause death. Depending upon the age, health, and fitness level of the individual, a victim may die from losing half or two-thirds of their blood. In ba...

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